#al

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not. ↗

— Jean Webster

#goals #happiness #life #rat-race #beauty

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#mind #real #what-is-on-the-inside #beauty

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#inspirational #beauty

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #lies #self-love #beauty

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#being-yourself #inspirational #life #beauty

the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#inspirational #beauty

With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beauty

May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. ↗

— Libba Bray

#reading #beauty

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#declarations-of-love #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #life

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #sam-gamgee #tolkien #beauty